Small Animal Vet - relocation allowance up to £5,000

Small Animal Vet required at Scarsdale Vets, Langley Mill

The Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Veterinary Surgeon to join our friendly and supportive team here at Scarsdale Vets, Langley Mill!

This role can adjust to fit your career aspirations. If you want to learn more about practice management, we can help you, but equally if you prefer to concentrate on building the services you enjoy, we can help with that too. 

Building and maintaining your client base will be a key element of your responsibilities. You will have autonomy for your cases plus the full support of our hospital facilities and expert knowledge from the first opinion day and night teams and the referral services in Pride Park. 

With proven experience of small animal care, you will have a good working knowledge of core clinical procedures and will provide excellent client care. Our customers come back to us again and again because they know we care. There will be some sole charge work at this practice, so you will need to be confident in making decisions.

The practice provides the ideal working environment to progress and develop further. We actively encourage and support CPD across all roles, with a number of team members holding or working towards certificates. 

The role is full time, working an average of 38 hours over 4 days per week but we will be flexible and consider part time/job share – the most important thing is finding the right person for our team!

We offer our own out-of-hours service and have a dedicated experienced night team. You will take part in our weekend rota which works out as 1:4 Saturday Mornings at a local practice and 1:8 Sundays at our hospital with time off in lieu the next week. Admin time is factored into the week to make sure you can stay on top of paperwork.

Salary for the role is up to £59,850 depending on experience + relocation allowance up to £5,000. 

About Us

Do you want to work in a purpose-built practice, with all the latest equipment and play a key role in the direction of your practice? If so, Scarsdale Vets can offer this at our Practice in Langley Mill. We are looking for a Vet to join the practice and help us to grow it to its full potential. Full training and support will always be available.

We are the largest provider of veterinary care in the East Midlands. The main hospital is based at Pride Park in Derby and is home to a busy first opinion practice, a multidisciplinary referral service and an out-of-hours service. In total we have 10 practice sites across Derbyshire and Staffordshire working within the local community offering a high-quality local service. 

All our practices are RCVS approved and have well-equipped facilities including imaging and full surgical facilities plus onsite laboratory. We also have separate dog and cat wards to make sure we can keep our patients comfortable if they need to stay with us. We offer 15-minute Vet and Nurse consults.

About the Team and Culture 

Due to our current vet moving home, we are now looking for a brand-new team member to help us to continue to offer this fantastic service to the local area. Our Langley Mill practice has been open since 2019 and is well established in the local area with regular clients.

Within the practice, you will be supported by a team of friendly and well-trained Client Care Assistants (CCAs), Practice Nurse, Trainee Nurse and Veterinary Care Assistant. You will work closely together each day, enabling you to build a close bond both with team members, patients and clients.

We have recently started welcoming rotations of vet students and tutors from Nottingham Vet School into the practice. This provides fantastic opportunities for the team to support and pass on their skills and knowledge to the next generation of Veterinary Surgeons.

We have a close-knit vet team who value the importance of supporting each other and sharing their knowledge to ensure we provide the best possible care to our patients.

Applicant Requirements 

Required skills and experience….

1. Experienced in small animal work 
2. Great client communication skills 
3. Have the ability to work independently and be part of a close knit team.
4. Passion for high quality care and the desire to progress and grow with us
5. Ability to prioritise and delegate

Would be good to have….

1. Drive to grow your own practice
2. Relevant veterinary certificate or business-related post-graduate qualification 
3. A local working knowledge of our competitor practices

Because our employee’s matter

We recognise that our people are fundamental to the success of our business. Investing in our people, premises and processes is at the heart of what we do. In addition to a competitive base salary, you will benefit from: 

Work life balance

• 6.6 weeks annual leave 
• Increasing holiday allowance based on length of service
• Your birthday as a paid day off

Wellbeing

• Private medical insurance
• Enhanced family-friendly policies, including maternity/paternity/adoption/shared parental and surrogacy pay
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Initiatives focused on employee wellbeing
• Non-accidental injury support

Development

• £1250 CPD allowance with 5 days paid pro rata
• Certificate support 
• Learning and development opportunities via the IVC Evidensia Academy
• Access to Vetlexicon – our online encyclopaedia provider
• All our Vets & Nurses can apply for research funding
• All our Vets get £1000 per annum to spend via our Care Fund
• Infection Prevention and Control Programme
• Quality Improvement Programme

Professional Memberships

• 2 paid subscriptions of your choice including the below 
• BVA membership
• VDS cover
• RCVS fees 

Additional

• Pawsome Benefits – reward gateway giving discounts and cashback with 100’s of retailers
• Pension – 5% Employee/3% Employer
• Discounted staff pet care

As a BAME and LGBTQ+ inclusive employer, we are keen to hear from candidates from all minority and diverse groups. As a Disability Confident Employer, we are keen to hear from candidates with disabilities and long-term health conditions and would be happy to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed during the recruitment process.

If this position is of interest to you then please get in touch.

Quote BH7386 when applying for this role. 

To apply please email your CV to Summer via the APPLY button or call 07977 242 401 for more information